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From the author's preface: "I am not aware that the attempt made in
this small volume has been anticipated in any other. Even the notes
of critics upon Shakespeare, superfluously full in pointing out his
obligations, real or supposed, to secular authors, are singularly
meagre in the references which they make to the Holy Scriptures.
And yet how abundant is the room for such reference, and how much
it may conduce to the mutual illustration of the two books, which
as Christians and as Britons we should value most, will be seen, I
trust, upon every page of the Second Part of the following
dissertation." A reprint of the third edition of 1880, by Charles
Wordsworth, then the Bishop of St. Andrews and Fellow of Winchester
College.
Charles Wordsworth's Graecae Grammaticae Rudimenta in Usum
Scholarum was, for decades, the foundational Greek grammar in
England. Wordsworth, a nephew of the poet, a master at Winchester
College and later bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dublane, used
his expertise in teaching the classical languages to produce a
clear, practical introduction to Greek, beginning with the alphabet
and progressing through the declension of nouns and adjectives, the
conjugations of verbs, and the fundamentals of syntax. In striving
not to replace the standard Eton Grammar but rather to refine and
revise it, Wordsworth succeeded in composing a book that one fellow
master called 'most distinct, easy of conception for the boys, and
lucidly arranged'. This ninth edition (1853) includes the author's
full emendations to the text.
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